Public roar of outrage over TV presenter’s lion kill

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An American TV presenter is facing calls from thousands of nature lovers to be
banned from South Africa after she posted a photograph of herself on Twitter
with a lion she had killed on a hunting safari trip.

Melissa Bachman, who likes to refer to herself as the “hardcore huntress”, is
pictured smiling next to the body of the adult male lion, which she tracked
down and shot in a hunt with the Maroi Conservancy on the northern border
with Zimbabwe.

“Incredible day in South Africa! Stalked inside 60-yards on this beautiful
male lion . . . what a hunt!” she wrote.